Venus and Starz

Some kind of cosmic convergence tonight at the Starz Denver Film Festival, when “Venus” comes out . . . twice. Peter O’Toole, one of the tremendous lions of the international film scene, keeps burning bright in a story about an aging stage actor who falls hard for the young niece of a friend. Could be another Oscar nomination in it for O’Toole, who has periodically re-emerged in terrrific movies since his highest-profile role in “Lawrence of Arabia” some 44 years ago now. Catch “Venus” at the Tivoli home of the festival, in two different theaters tonight at 7 p.m., and again Wednesday at 9 p.m. — Michael Booth

Film & theater critic Lisa Kennedy likes to watch -- a lot. She also has a fondness for no-man’s lands, contested territories and Venn Diagrams. She believes the best place to live is usually on the border between two vibrant neighborhoods. Where better to apply this penchant for overlap and divergence than covering film and theater – two arts that owe so much to each other yet offer radically idiosyncratic pleasures? In another life, Kennedy was an Obie judge. In this one, she’s been a Pulitzer Prize judge in criticism, an Independent Spirit Award jurist and Colorado’s first member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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